Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art critics are being blamed for vandalising cast iron sculptures which have been likened to ice-cream cones or seashells . |
| 2 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 3 | There is certainly a case for subsidy on the social railway , but I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree with the judgment of the previous Labour Government , who said that there was no case for subsidising inter-urban services , nor was there a social case for subsidy with regard to inter-city services . |
| 4 | ( Grazing animals ingest dioxins through eating contaminated plants and soil . ) |
| 5 | This piece of street theatre is performed in Sanatrem by members of the Amazon defence group , warning of the dangers of mercury poison through eating contaminated fish . |
| 6 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 7 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 8 | The most controversial issue the Association handled was Harris Tweed where there was a sharp conflict between competing commercial interests . |
| 9 | Put another way , after human slaves have been liberated , then one might attempt to argue that a fair way to decide between competing social policies is to count everyone 's interests and count equal interests equally . |
| 10 | The Cobe evidence will flesh out the skeleton of existing knowledge and allow astronomers to begin to chose between competing cosmological theories . |
| 11 | An example from German would be : Because two ( or more ) changes are involved , something more than a simple substitution drill is required for mastering these features . |
| 12 | They are used in learning vocabulary as well as for mastering grammatical structure . |
| 13 | It had been announced , however , on June 26 that the trial of the former political leader Fadilj Hodza for instigating racial and religious intolerance [ see p. 37382 ] , had been adjourned indefinitely after defence claims of a mistrial . |
| 14 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 15 | If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 17 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 18 | Actually for radical gays it was much more about the relationship with the Labour movement ; much more about building social identities ; about relating to the need for social change . |
| 19 | The phenomenon of modifiable taste aversion is often taken as one of the prime pieces of evidence for doubting general principles of associative learning . |
| 20 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
| 21 | Subsequent chapters of this book will provide us with plenty of reasons for doubting that claim . |
| 22 | For earlier times , though , there are reasons for doubting certain simulations . |
| 23 | There are persuasive reasons for doubting this . |
| 24 | There are grounds for doubting this opinion . |
| 25 | Have you ever thought about transforming that small , dark room , which harbours all your clutter , into a light and spacious haven ? |
| 26 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 27 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 28 | THE RSPCA has been criticised for bringing two ‘ home alone ’ court cases , only one of which resulted in a successful prosecution . |
| 29 | And if demand was substantially reduced then the urgency for bringing new power stations on stream could equally diminish . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , over in Oxford , the man responsible for bringing such fainting lilacs as RIDE to public attention — MAC of the Jericho Tavern — celebrated his umpteenth birthday in fine style at that very infamous hostelry , beloved of so many hot young things . |